| | "...The influence of Aristotle has already been mentioned, but it has been argued (Dreyfus, 1972) that the history of Artificial Intelligence begins when Plato wrote that his teacher Socrates said, “I want to know what is characteristic of piety which makes all actions pious. . . that I may have it to turn to, and to use as a standard whereby to judge your actions and those of other men.”
Socrates was claiming that an algorithm could be defined that described the behavior of humans and determined whether a person’s behavior was good or bad.
This leads us to a fundamental question that has been asked by philosophers and students of Artificial Intelligence for many years: Is there more to the mind than simply a collection of neurons? Or, to put it another way, if each neuron in the human brain was replaced by an equivalent computational device, would the resultant be the same person? Would it indeed be capable of intelligent thought?"
- Artificial Intelligence Illuminated
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